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Accessibility and attractiveness of European airports: A simple small community perspective

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  • Reynolds-Feighan, Aisling
  • McLay, Peter

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This paper describes a simple method for comparing airports based on their accessibility to regional, continental or global air transport networks, using a variety of different measures of traffic. The method is applied to all Irish and UK airports for the years 2000, 2003 and 2005 and compares the performance of these airports in serving the UK/Ireland, Western European, Greater European, North American and global air transport markets. The method may be generalised to assess other regional groupings of airports in differing regional contexts, in situations where very limited demographic and socio-economic data are available.

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  • Reynolds-Feighan, Aisling & McLay, Peter, 2006. "Accessibility and attractiveness of European airports: A simple small community perspective," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 12(6), pages 313-323.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:12:y:2006:i:6:p:313-323
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2006.07.009
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